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What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

M.I.A.

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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Ventura County
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.
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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
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Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.
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I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.
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Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, You can't touch that now because you're a pop star.
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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
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When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.
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If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.
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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.
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